Though Moore’s most common medium is, arguably, paper napkins, a series of events set in motion years ago has led to his work being permanently preserved in a beautiful handmade quilt.

Accounts from family and friends at the Pope County Senior Activity Center (PCSAC) all confirmed Moore can’t sit down to lunch without drawing on a napkin. And, by the way, not all napkins are created equal.

“Some napkins are worse than others, believe me,” Moore said. “... If you want to know which are the best napkins, just call me.”

A large number of Moore’s napkin drawings end up in the trash, a fact that didn’t sit well with Kathleen Bell, another regular at the senior center.

“I watched him sit here for two years and draw those flowers, and then throw them away — and I just couldn’t stand it,” Bell said.

So, one day in 2008, Bell took three of Moore’s drawings home with her. It took awhile for her to get around to completing the project, but in 2010 she brought her completed project to PCSAC to show what she’d done, which was take Moore’s drawings, transfer them to fabric and embroider them.

Bell’s project gave Jerri Bradford an idea — a quilt, with each square featuring one of Moore’s drawings, handmade by various ladies from the center.

“I’m an idea person,” Bradford said of her plan for the quilt, which will be given away to raise funds for PCSAC. “I didn’t know they were going to make me work on it.”

While it may be commonly accepted that it takes a village to raise a child, it appears the same idea may be applicable to quilts, too. Nearly two dozen people came together to create the piece featuring Moore’s drawings.

Start with Moore himself; then add Bell, who was the catalyst for transferring the artwork to a fabric medium; then add the 20 ladies who embroidered 30 fabric squares; and finally, Bradford said the squares were quilted together by ladies from the Yell County Senior Activity Center in Danville.